Vera Musaelyan
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January 29, 1988
Russia- Singer
- Songwriter
- Musician
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| Born | Vera Vyacheslavovna Musaelyan January 29, 1988 |
| Origin | Russia |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
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Vera Vyacheslavovna Musaelyan (born January 29, 1988, in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Oblast) is a Russian singer, musician, and songwriter.[1] She is the founder, lead singer,[2] and leader[3][4] of the pop rock band AloeVera.[1][5]
Vera Musaelyan was born on January 29, 1988, in Nizhny Tagil to a mixed Armenian-Azerbaijani family. At the age of 16, she moved to Yekaterinburg, where she entered the Faculty of Economics at the Ural State Technical University (USTU-UPI), but a year later transferred to the Faculty of Journalism at Ural State University (USU). During her student years, she became acquainted with the Yekaterinburg music scene, was a keyboardist in the band Alai Oli, and socialized with members of the bands Sansara and Kurara.[1][5]
In 2009, Musaelyan lost her voice for six months. After consulting a phoniatrist, who advised her to take up singing, Vera began taking singing lessons and performing in a Japanese restaurant, singing songs by Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald. In 2011, she founded her own band, AloeVera.[1][5]
In 2022, after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Musaelyan left Russia.[6] In October 2023, she announced that she had received a residence permit in Germany and moved to Berlin.[6]
Career
The band AloeVera was founded in Yekaterinburg in 2011.[5] The band's musical style can be described as pop-rock[1] and cute rock.[7] Musaelyan herself describes the band's work as songs about "a feeling of freedom."[5] The lyrics of AloeVera's songs are notable for their frankness and provocativeness.[8] Musaelyan herself notes that she only writes about what she has experienced herself and does not know how to come up with fictional stories.[5]